Mr Grehan
Contents
Humourous History
- Mr Grehan is famed for his bad jokes, and used to be the undeniable "best dressed teacher in school", until Mr Haycocks cottoned on and got a waistcoat.
- Claims that he lives in London and gets up at about half 4 every morning in order to be able to make the commute to school in time.
- Owns a red Audi TT.
- absoloutely ADORES britney spears...
- Is willingly bald
Quotes
"I hate free speech."
"(Valentines assembley)...and then he died. So what is all this death for? Yes, that little four letter word...DOOR!...I mean Love!"
"Airplane is the greatest film ever"
(puts video on) "I'm not going to stop it this time." 2 seconds later video is stopped and Mr Grehan remarks "I've been there."
"Shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted"
"Dipped his toe in the pool of reform"
"Can I have Parent's Evening appointments before 7:30, West Ham are on."
I'm not in the business of humour... I'm in the business of wit..." (yeah you THINK that Mr Grehan)
"Helped to put the final nail in the coffin of laisse faire"
"chipping away at (insert various wrong historical ideas here)"
"Imagine giving a starving man, I mean, he hasn't eaten for years; Imagine giving him the smallest bit of food, then kicking it out of his mouth when he starts chewing. This was Russia"
Bad Jokes
Key:
SNE = Should not exist (ever in the history of mankind)
TPFW = Too Painful for words.
(Student is yawning) "Watch out a train might go in" TPFW
(Student who does chemistry) "I loved Chemistry I was in my element... Get it?" SNE
(student wishing to do archaeology at Uni) "Archaeology... now there's a subject with hidden depths" TPFW
"Whilst I was in the Pizza Hut near the Red Square after seeing Lenin, I made a little tower with two slices of pizza, and said to everyone, "look, it's a Lenin Tower of Pizza"" SNE
Student: "Sorry I'm late we had to take my friend to A+E, well the Minor Injuries bit anyway..." Mr Grehan: "Minor Injuries... I suppose lots of people with headlamps and breathing difficulties were there?" SNE
(whilst wandering along the bus with a bin bag) "Any rubbish? Oh look, it's a wanted terrorist, Bin Liner.." SNE
(student is putting on a scarf) Grehan: "is Al Pacino your favourite actor?" (silence) "get it?" (no) (more silence) (Puts scarf on student's face) "SCARF FACE!!! get it!?! oh my God I'm hilarious" TPFW
Student: "Oooh! I get it." Mr. Grehan: "That penny had wings."
(talking about Louis Pastuer's influence on medicine) "He also invented thefastest type of milk, pasteurised! Pasteurised - past your eyes, very fast" Onle half the class got it. And that was after it had been explained to them.
--Looks of disdain, and in some cases pure hatred, from all members of class.--
--Much ridiculing of Mr. Grehan whispered behind hands, followed by giggles.--
Mr. Grehan: "Your skates are too heavy for the ice thickness." WTF
The Joke he thinks is his comic high point and wants in the Leavers' Book
(In conversation about the new pond behind the Clarke Building to some of Year 10 history set 05/06)
Student: "It won't be a pond it'll be an ashtray... I wonder if you could get a fish addicted to nicotine..."
Mr Grehan: "They are already... haven't you heard of smoked salmon... or cod...(!)"
Three minutes later...
Mr Grehan: "Halibut... get it... Hali-BUT... as in cigarette butt... oh my God that's my best joke this year... I only just thought of it... my best joke so far... write that one down... I ll be upset if that's not in the Leavers' Book..."
On the Subject of West Ham's defeat
"You can't call it fair... we should have won... hit the inside post in the last minute of extra time..."
"They said they were going to make 'FA CUP' the password for PARS this week... I told them that if they did I wouldn't be doing any registers..."
Rob Whitworth, (after Mr. G had entered the class looking slightly crestfallen, yet sporting a very short new hairstyle) 'sir, did you have a bet on that if West Ham lost the cup final you'd get your hair cut like that?'
Sam Stevens, on the arrival of Mr.Grehans new car...'*cough* Midlife crisis...'
On the Subject of Airplane
"I won't stop the video this time..." (stops video) "Did you get that joke? Have you even seen this before? Oh my God... Do you want to borrow it... think of it as furthering your education..."
(stops video again) "WAIT... you didn't laugh... don't tell me you DIDN'T find it funny!! Oh my God... that was the comic point of the film and you didn't even laugh...*shakes head* are you sure you don't want to borrow it??"
Paranoid Gorilla
Akif Hussain 'Sir did you know the first sign of madness is having hairy palms?'
Mr. G ......checks.... "ahh i'm sane!"
Phil Howe 'Sir did you know the first sign of being a gorilla is having hairy knuckles'
Mr. G ......Checks....looks on in disbelief at his hair knuckles. 'Phillip? GET OUT!!!'
